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SUBJECT:HISTORY TEACHER: Mr.

Raphael

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Civil Rights USA- 1945 TO WATER GATES
GERMANY - FULL BOOK
Germany: development of dictatorship, 1918–45
What students need to learn:
1. The establishment of the Weimar Republic and its early problems
2. The recovery of Germany, 1924–29
3. The rise of Hitler and the Nazis to January 1933 Nazi Germany 1933–39 Germany and
the occupied territories during the Second World War
4. The Abdication of the Kaiser and the German Revolution of 1918–19.
5. The strengths and weaknesses of the new Republic and its Constitution.
6. Reactions to the Treaty of Versailles.
7. Challenges from Right and Left, including the Kapp Putsch and the Spartacist uprising.
8. French occupation of the Ruhr
9. Causes and effects of hyperinflation.
10. The work of Stresemann.
11. Rentenmark, Dawes and Young Plans, US loans and the recovery of the German
economy.
12. Successes abroad – League of Nations, Locarno Treaties and Kellogg-Briand Pact.
13. Hitler and the German Workers’ Party.
14. Changes to the party (1920–22).
15. Causes, events, and results of Munich Putsch, (1923).
16. Reorganization of the Party (1924–28).
17. Impact of the Great Depression.
18. Nazi methods to win support.
19. The role of the SA.
20. Events of 1932 to January 1933, including the role of von Papen, von Schleicher, and von
Hindenburg.
21. Setting up the Nazi dictatorship through the Reichstag Fire, Enabling Act, Night of the
Long Knives and Hitler as Führer.
22. The methods of Nazi control and the extent to which they were successful, including the
police state, censorship and propaganda.
23. Nazi policies towards education, women, the young, the Churches and their impact.
24. Nazi racial policies and increasing persecution of Jews.
25. Policies to reduce unemployment and their impact.
26. The Labour Service, the Labour Front and Strength Through Joy.
27. Nazi policies towards the Jews, including ghettos, death squads and the Final Solution.
28. The Home Front, including changing role of women, ‘total war’, rationing and the effects
of allied bombing.
29. The growth of opposition to Hitler, including the Edelweiss Pirates, the White Rose Group
and the July Bomb Plot (1944).
30. Hitler’s death.
31. A divided union: civil rights in the USA, 1945–74

What students need to learn:

1. The Red Scare and McCarthyism Civil rights in the 1950s


2. The impact of civil rights protests, 1960–74
3. Other protest movements: students, women, anti–Vietnam
4. Reasons for the Red Scare, including the Cold War (1945–50), Hiss and Rosenberg cases, the
FBI, the HUAC and the Hollywood Ten.
5. Methods used by McCarthy and the growth of opposition.
6. Reasons for his downfall. Overall impact of McCarthyism on the USA.
7. Segregation and discrimination.
8. The influence of the Supreme Court and Congress.
9. The importance of Brown v Board of Education of Topeka (1954), death of Emmett Till (1955)
and the key events and significance of the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955–56) and Little
Rock (1957). The significance of the Civil Rights Act, 1957.
10. Revival of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).
11. Freedom riders, Anniston fire bombing, sit-ins and voting rights and the Meredith Case.
12. The methods and activities of Martin Luther King.
13. The Birmingham Campaign, the Washington March and the ‘Dream’ speech.
14. The Mississippi Freedom Summer.
15. The impact of protest on civil rights legislation of the 1960s.
16. Selma and voting rights.
17. The Nation of Islam and the work of Malcolm X.
18. Reasons for the growth of Black Power and its impact, including the 1968 Olympics; the
influence of Stokely Carmichael.
19. The impact of race riots especially in the Watts District.
20. The Black Panther movement and the roles of Bobby Seale and Huey Newton.
21. Reasons for the growth of protest movements.
22. The student movement and links to war in Vietnam, including the anti-Vietnam War
movement. The Berkeley Free Speech movement. Students for a Democratic Society and
‘hippies’.
23. Betty Friedan, Eleanor Roosevelt, NOW, women’s liberation movement and abortion.
24. Phyllis Schlafly and opposition to the women’s movement.
25. Nixon and Watergate Reasons for and key features of the Watergate Scandal.
26. Impact on Nixon, US politics and new laws, including the War Powers Act (1973), the
Election Campaign Act (1974), the Privacy Act (1974) and the Congressional Budget Control
Act (1974); Gerald Ford and the presidential pardon.

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USA 1900 TO 1945
What students need to learn:
27. The Roaring Twenties The economic benefits of the First World War.
28. Reasons for economic boom in the 1920s, Henry Ford and mass production, hire purchase,
advertising, consumerism and the popularity of the stock market.
29. Problems in farming, including over-production and mechanisation.
30. The decline of older industries.
31. The leisure industry, cinema, jazz, dancing, sport, radio, advertising and motoring.
32. The changing position of women, including the flappers.
33. Increased social tensions in the 1920s The USA in Depression, 1929–33 Roosevelt and the
New Deal, 1933–41 The Opposition to the New Deal Attitudes and policies towards
immigration. The Palmer Raids and the ‘Red Scare’.
34. The Sacco and Vanzetti Case. Attitudes towards black Americans.
35. The Ku Klux Klan. Morals and values and the ‘Monkey Trial’.
36. Prohibition and the gangsters.
37. The causes and consequences of the Wall Street Crash (1929–30).
38. Hoover’s reaction to the Great Depression: intervention and volunteerism.
39. The impact of the Depression on banking, agriculture, industry and on people’s lives:
Hoovervilles and the Bonus Marchers, unemployment and homelessness.
40. Roosevelt’s aims.
41. The Hundred Days, the Alphabet Agencies, including the TVA and policies to deal with
agriculture industry and unemployment.
42. The second New Deal, including the Works Progress Administration, welfare for the poor,
the old and farmers.
43. The impact of the Social Security Act, the National Labor Relations Act ("Wagner Act") and
the Banking Act of 1935.
44. Rural electrification.
45. The achievements and shortcomings of the New Deal.
46. The opposition of the Supreme Court, Republicans, business interests, the Liberty League;
radical criticism such as Huey Long’s Share Our Wealth programme and Father Coughlin’s
Social Justice campaign.
THE LEAGUE AND THE UN

 What students need to learn:

1. The creation and successes of the League, 1919–29 The League challenged, 1930–
39 Setting up the United Nations Organisation and its work to 1964 The UN
challenged, 1967–89 Woodrow Wilson and the setting up of the League.

2. The Covenant of the League of Nations.

3. Membership; Assembly, Council, Secretariat, League agencies and commissions.

4. Successes of the League, including the Aaland Islands (1920), Upper Silesia (1921),
the Greek-Bulgarian War (1925), Refugee and Drugs Committees.

5. The roles of the Great Powers, including the problem of the veto and the failure to
curb the dictators.

6. Failures in Manchuria (1931–33), Abyssinia (1935–36).

7. The continuing work of the specialised agencies, including the Child Welfare
Committee and the slavery commissions.

8. Setting up of the UN and the UN Charter, including structural problems.

9. General Assembly and Security Council, Secretariat, secretary-general, UN


peacekeeping forces, Human Rights Commission and UN agencies, the continuing
work of the ILO, and the Refugee Organisations; the Mandates Commission and
the Disarmament Commission, WHO, FAO, UNESCO and UNICEF.

10. The UN role in Palestine (1947–49), the Korean War (1950–53), and the Congo
(1960–64).

11. Case studies in limited success, including the UN role in the Middle East, especially
the continuing Palestine problem – Resolutions 242 (1967) and 338 (1973) – and
the problem of Lebanon (1975–85). The attempt to resolve disputes in Namibia
(1989). The problem of Security decisions – the ‘Permanent 5’.

The continuing work of the specialised


agencies.
Pearson Edexcel International GCSE in History – Specification Issue 4 –
March 2022 © Pearson Education Limited 2022 5 The UN at bay, 1990–
2011 UN attempts to find long-term peace in identity wars, including
Somalia (1991–95), Bosnia (1992–95). The Balkans (1991–99).
Mozambique (1990–94) and Sudan (2005– 11). The UN role in the Gulf
Wars. Obstacles to success. The continuing work of the specialised
agencies.

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